South stands strong to make it a treble - September 25 2007
South stands strong to make it a treble
September 25 2007
Shepparton News
Shepparton South won its third consecutive under-17 North Eastern Soccer League premiership after a 2-1 victory over Yoogali in Sunday's grand final at Tatura Park.
Goals from Ali Karslioglu and Samet Yollu gave South the title and coach Ralph Giuliani a triple-crown.
Giuliani said that a fourth title would be a massive challenge with most of his star players heading to senior ranks next season.
"It was fantastic because Yoogali threw everything at us and the boys stood up," Giuliani said.
"We'll probably lose two thirds of the team to age next season, it'd be a dream to get four and we will have some great players still available next year."
Shepparton United won an entertaining under-15s grand final 3-2 over a valiant Tatura.
Christian Georgopoulos, Kris Boumbis and Matt Nixon scored the goals for United, while Jarrod Backway and Cody Selwood found the net for Tatura.
Georgopoulos and Selwood will now head to Coffs Harbour for the Qantas Australian National Youth Championships this week.
Shepparton dominated the under-13s grand final to defeat Tatura 5-0.
Having conceded just four goals for the season the Reds were rarely troubled and made the Ibises pay at the other end with a hat-trick to Zack Thomson and goals to Tyler Pedretti and Matt Pryor.
"We had a strong defence and every position was good in our team," Thomson said.
"Mitch Anderson was a great coach, he's been in the under-15 state team, so he'd been there and done that and we learnt a lot from him.
"One of my goals was a bit more of a fluke, I meant to cross it, but the others were good team moves."
Cobram Victory won its first premiership in North Eastern Soccer League when it took out the under-11 title, 3-1 over Shepparton South.
Riley Michel scored South's goal, while Pat Condidorio, Matthew Sorrenti and Mike Pauw netted for Victory.
"The boys were absolutely brilliant," Victory coach Sam Sorrenti said.
"Hopefully there will be premierships for us in more divisions next season."
Hanwood won the reserves grand final over Yoogali, 1-0.
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